304 Inspirational Quotes (Part I)

1. "It was high counsel that i once heard given to a young person. Always do what you are afraid to do." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet

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2. "Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon." (Norman Vincent Peale) Click to tweet

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3. "To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance,it recedes." (Edmund Burke) Click to tweet

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4. "The indispensable first step in getting the things you want in life is this: decide what you want." (Ben Stein) Click to tweet

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5. "A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied 10 minutes later." (George Patton) Click to tweet

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6. "To be the father of a great nation is an honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy." (Nelson Mandela) Click to tweet

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7. "The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." (Colin Wilson) Click to tweet

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8. "Four things come not back: the spoken word; the sped arrow; time past; the neglected opportunity." (Ibn Omar) Click to tweet

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9. "In great matters people show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are." (Gamaliel Bradford) Click to tweet

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10. "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." (Albert Von Szent Gyorgy) Click to tweet

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11. "It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant." (Don Herold) Click to tweet

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12. "The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." (Samuel Johnson) Click to tweet

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13. "If you think you are too small to make a difference, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito." (Anita Roddick) Click to tweet

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14. "Advice is what older men offer to younger men when they can no longer set them a bad example." (Irvin Cobb) Click to tweet

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15. "Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." (Napoleon Hill) Click to tweet

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16. "The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs … one step at a time." (Joe Girard) Click to tweet

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17. "Gossip needn’t be false to be evil - there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around." (Frank Clark) Click to tweet

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18. "Teenagers are people who express a burning desire to be different by dressing exactly alike." (Ken Dooley) Click to tweet

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19. "Many good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost be active hostility." (Robert Menzies) Click to tweet

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20. "Never answer an angry word with an angry word. It's the second one that makes the quarrel." (W.A. Nance) Click to tweet

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21. "Sign in a department store's customer service department: "god loves you and i'm trying"."Click to tweet

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22. "Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home." (Phyllis Diller) Click to tweet

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23. "You can outdistance that which is running after your, but not what is running inside you." (Rwandan Proverb) Click to tweet

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24. "I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than others do." (Willa Cather) Click to tweet

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25. "Each problem that i solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." (Rene Descartes) Click to tweet

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26. "A rich person should leave his kids enough to do something, but not enough to do nothing." (Warren Buffett) Click to tweet

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27. "The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left." (Herbert Browne) Click to tweet

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28. "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." (Maureen Dowd) Click to tweet

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29. "The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes." (Marcel Proust) Click to tweet

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30. "You laugh at me because i am different, but i laugh at you because you are all the same."Click to tweet

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31. "It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action." (Thomas Fuller) Click to tweet

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32. "We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us." (J. Dabney Day) Click to tweet

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33. "I like a teacher who gives you something to take home and think about besides homework." (Lily Tomlin) Click to tweet

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34. "Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have and then got it all back." (David Moore) Click to tweet

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35. "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." (Walter Lippmann) Click to tweet

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36. "Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over." (Percy Ross) Click to tweet

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37. "Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others." (William Allen White) Click to tweet

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38. "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them." (Ann Landers) Click to tweet

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39. "You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing." (Michal Pritchard) Click to tweet

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40. "No man in the wrong kin stand up agin' a fellow that's in the right 'n keeps a'comin." (Ken Alstad) Click to tweet

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41. "It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.) Click to tweet

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42. "Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade, they never learn the trade." (Peter Davison) Click to tweet

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43. "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." (Chinese Epigram) Click to tweet

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44. "The latest survey shows that three out of four people make up 75% of the population." (Robert Banner) Click to tweet

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45. "May you never forget what is worth remembering, or remember what is best forgotten." (Celtic Toast) Click to tweet

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46. "Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." (J. Willard Marriott) Click to tweet

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47. "You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to pick up the phone and ring them." (Lew Grade) Click to tweet

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48. "Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody." (Helen Gurley Brown) Click to tweet

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49. "Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, the pass no criticisms." (George Eliot) Click to tweet

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50. "To be successful have your heart in your business and your business in your heart." (Thomas Watson) Click to tweet

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51. "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better." (John Updike) Click to tweet

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52. "Being a frog isn't as bad as it seems. Whenever anything bugs them, they eat it."Click to tweet

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53. "It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time." (Barbara Kingsolver) Click to tweet

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54. "In the end, the fundamental decisions a leader makes are decisions of character." (Alex Kroll) Click to tweet

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55. "A good teacher is like a candle; it consumes itself to light the way for others."Click to tweet

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56. "To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a good person - to help them is." (Frank Clark) Click to tweet

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57. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." (George Bernard Shaw) Click to tweet

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58. "Other people's faults are like bees - if we don't see them, they don't harm us." (Luis Vigil) Click to tweet

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59. "Flattery is counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation." (Francois de La Rochefoucauld) Click to tweet

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60. "The future is that time when you'll wish you'd done what you aren't doing now." (Gerald Roque) Click to tweet

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61. "When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick." (Bill Lemley) Click to tweet

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62. "Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort." (Bert Murray) Click to tweet

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63. "If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning." (Griff Niblack) Click to tweet

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64. "It's where we go and what we do when we get there that tells us where we are." (Joyce Oates) Click to tweet

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65. "When the best leader's work is done, people think they've done it themselves." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet

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66. "No one can make you angry, jealous, vengeful or greedy - unless you allow it."Click to tweet

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67. "Those who think it's permissible to tell white lies soon become color-blind." (Austin O'Malley) Click to tweet

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68. "It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong." (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Click to tweet

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69. "When someone tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football."Click to tweet

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70. "Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint on it you can." (Danny Kaye) Click to tweet

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71. "People who make money rarely saunter; people who save money rarely swagger." (Edward Lytton) Click to tweet

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72. "We need to narrow the gap between the world as it is and what it should be." (Michelle Obama) Click to tweet

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73. "Some people would not hesitate to drive up to the gates of heaven and honk." (John Holmes) Click to tweet

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74. "As we look into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." (Bill Gates) Click to tweet

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75. "What progress, you ask, have i made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." (Hecato) Click to tweet

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76. "Sometimes we forget that we will never find such people in our life again." (Dimitri Konstantinidis) Click to tweet

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77. "Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river." (Haitian Proverb) Click to tweet

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78. "Success is a ladder than cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket." (American Proverb) Click to tweet

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79. "An optimist is a person who believes a housefly is looking for a way out." (George Jean Nathan) Click to tweet

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80. "Life is an echo. What you send out, you get back. What you give, you get."Click to tweet

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81. "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."Click to tweet

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82. "While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster." (Abigail Van Buren) Click to tweet

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83. "The cheapest way to develop your family tree is to run for public office." (Jim Dooley) Click to tweet

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84. "Heed the small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly." (Marquise De Deffand) Click to tweet

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85. "There's only one thing that can grow without nourishment: the human ego." (Marshall Lumsden) Click to tweet

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86. "Nostalgia: a device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane." (Doug Larson) Click to tweet

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87. "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else." (Yogi Berra) Click to tweet

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88. "People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway." (Mother Teresa) Click to tweet

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89. "Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off." (Ralph Buss) Click to tweet

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90. "It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success." (Jack Manning) Click to tweet

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91. "Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you second chances." (Ken Dooley) Click to tweet

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92. "One person practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it." (Knute Rockne) Click to tweet

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93. "If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you."Click to tweet

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94. "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." (Thomas Edison) Click to tweet

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95. "It's ok to be content with what you have, but never with what you are."Click to tweet

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96. "Wisdom only comes with experience and experience only comes with time."Click to tweet

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97. "The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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98. "The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm." (Malcolm Forbes) Click to tweet

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99. "Television is called a medium because it is neither rare or well-done."Click to tweet

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100. "Once the game is over the king and the pawn go back into the same box." (Italian Proverb) Click to tweet

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101. "Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds." (Elie Wiesel) Click to tweet

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102. "Opportunity man knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."Click to tweet

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103. "You will never bypass your predecessor by following in his footsteps." (Irish Proverb) Click to tweet

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104. "In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends." (John Collins) Click to tweet

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105. "I always have a question for everything. It saves original thinking." (Dorothy Sayers) Click to tweet

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106. "If you would like to know the value of money, go try to borrow some." (Benjamin Franklin) Click to tweet

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107. "Having one child makes you a parent. Having two makes you a referee." (David Frost) Click to tweet

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108. "It’s good to have a train of thought, providing you have a terminal."Click to tweet

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109. "Inside every 70-year old is a 35-year old asking, "what happened?"."Click to tweet

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110. "The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions." (Alfred Adler) Click to tweet

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111. "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." (William Butler Yeats) Click to tweet

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112. "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." (Elbert Hubbard) Click to tweet

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113. "To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle." (George Orwell) Click to tweet

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114. "If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon." (Irish Proverb) Click to tweet

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115. "Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out."Click to tweet

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116. "You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him." (Robert Savage) Click to tweet

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117. "It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure."Click to tweet

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118. "Life can be long or short; everything depends upon how we live it." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet

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119. "It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference." (Tom Brokow) Click to tweet

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120. "You must love people and use money, not love money and use people." (Tom Luu) Click to tweet

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121. "When it comes to staying young, a mind beats a face lift any day." (Marty Burella) Click to tweet

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122. "He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet

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123. "If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" (Will Rogers) Click to tweet

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124. "I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work." (Thomas Edison) Click to tweet

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125. "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot harder to make a difference." (Tom Brokow) Click to tweet

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126. "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." (Demosthenes) Click to tweet

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127. "That which is used develops. That which is not used wastes away." (Hippocrates) Click to tweet

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128. "You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside." (Adolfo Ballesteros) Click to tweet

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129. "Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address." (Lane Olinghouse) Click to tweet

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130. "To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me." (Charles William Stubbs) Click to tweet

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131. "A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future." (Robert Heinlein) Click to tweet

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132. "Beware of little expenses. A small leak can sink a large ship." (Benjamin Franklin) Click to tweet

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133. "A little madness in the spring is wholesome even for the king." (Emily Dickinson) Click to tweet

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134. "The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up." (Mark Twain) Click to tweet

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135. "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." (Vidal Sassoon) Click to tweet

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136. "He how seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."Click to tweet

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137. "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." (Saviellytartakower) Click to tweet

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138. "Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself." (A. Bronson Alcotto) Click to tweet

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139. "Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs." (H. Stein) Click to tweet

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140. "Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month." (William Dean Howells) Click to tweet

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141. "Keep your fears to yourself; share your courage with others." (Robert Louis Stevenson) Click to tweet

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142. "Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."Click to tweet

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143. "Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."Click to tweet

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144. "To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better." (Tryon Edwards) Click to tweet

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145. "Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent." (Langston Coleman) Click to tweet

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146. "It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later." (Lucimar Santos De Lima) Click to tweet

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147. "You can have a fancy education and still not be very wise."Click to tweet

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148. "I’m going to speak my mind because i have nothing to lose." (S.I. Hayakawa) Click to tweet

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149. "Well it is known that ambition can creep as well as soar." (Edmund Burke) Click to tweet

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150. "Be true to your teeth or your teeth will be false to you."Click to tweet

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151. "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a lot of explanation." (H.H. Munro) Click to tweet

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152. "Change is a door that can only be opened from the inside." (Terry Neil) Click to tweet

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153. "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." (John Ruskin) Click to tweet

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154. "Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself." (Rita Mae Brown) Click to tweet

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155. "What this country needs is more unemployed politicians." (Edward Langley) Click to tweet

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156. "Forget the past. No one becomes successful in the past." (Richard Bell) Click to tweet

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157. "We are only young once. That is all society can stand." (Bob Bowen) Click to tweet

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158. "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet

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159. "Gentle words fall lightly but they have great weight." (Ogden Nash) Click to tweet

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160. "Ireland's greatest export has always been her people." (Nancy Keefe) Click to tweet

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161. "Before you go into a canyon, know how you'll get out." (Ken Alstad) Click to tweet

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162. "It's not so much where we are but where we're headed." (Paige Glenister) Click to tweet

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163. "Luck is always against the person who depends on it." (Ken Dooley) Click to tweet

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164. "The most important thing is not to stop questioning." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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165. "Truly grown is he who hasn't lost his child's heart." (Meng Tsen) Click to tweet

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166. "We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities." (Pogo) Click to tweet

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167. "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." (Satchel Paige) Click to tweet

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168. "Toughness doesn’t have to come in a pinstripe suit." (Dianne Feinstein) Click to tweet

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169. "The wise person questions himself; the fool others." (Henri Arnold) Click to tweet

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170. "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." (Erma Bombeck) Click to tweet

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171. "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" (Steven Wright) Click to tweet

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172. "May god fill your hear with gladness to cheer you." (Irish Blessing) Click to tweet

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173. "If you lose your temper, you've lost the argument."Click to tweet

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174. "Without music, life is a journey through a desert." (Pat Conroy) Click to tweet

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175. "When here is great love there are always miracles."Click to tweet

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176. "Making a living is not the same as making a life."Click to tweet

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177. "Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations." (Faith Baldwin) Click to tweet

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178. "If i were two-faced, would i be wearing this one?" (Abraham Lincoln) Click to tweet

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179. "Better to light a candle than curse the darkness." (Chinese Proverb) Click to tweet

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180. "There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience." (French proverb) Click to tweet

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